Curtain-fixture.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ERNEST MATTIIEWs, .OF FEBNDALE, CALIFORNIA.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,296, dated February 11, 1902.

Application filed October 12, 1899. Renewed December 24,1961. Serial No. 87,067. (No model.) I

curtain-bracket in any desired'adjustment' and will at the same time bind the bars supporting such bracket in clamping engagement with the window-casing.

The invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a horizontal cross-section of a part of a window-casing provided with one 'of my improved fixtures. Fig. 2 is a face view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view showing the several parts of the fixture detached.

By my invention I seek to provide a fixture for application to window-casings of the general style illustrated in Fig. 1, in which the part A represents in cross-section what is known as an Eastlake casing. To adapt my fixture to such casing, Iemploy two sections or bars B and G. The bar B is curved at B to conform to the curved edge A" of the casing A and is provided at the extremity of its curved portion B with a hook-like extension B which engages over the edge of the casing A, as shown in Fig. 1. The sections B and O are overlapped at their inner or meeting ends and are slidable upon each other at such ends to permit the adjustment of the fixture to suit casings of different widths. The section 0 is provided at its outer end with an inwardly-projecting arm 0, provided at its extremity with teeth 0 adapted to bite into the square edge A of the casing A and aid in securing the fixture in place.

When the bars B and O are applied to the casing A, as shown in Fig. 1, it will be seen the fixture is held firmly to the casing. It will also be seen that by sliding the bars B and 0 upon each other the fixture can be I adapted to fit casings of different widths;

also, that this adaptation of thefixture can be effected readily and without disturbing the adjustment of the bracket, which will be presently described.

The bracket D is provided at E with a suitable bearing for the stud of the curtain-roller and also has at its innerend a base F, which embraces the overlapped portions of the bars.

B and C, so such bars can slide freely within the. base when the clamp G, presently described, is reieased. This permits the adjustment of the bars B and C to suit difierent widths of casing, and the base F forms a guide for the said barsin such adjustment andthe means for holding the bars together and permitting their endwise adjustment as desired.

The clamp is represented in the form of a screw Gr, turningthrough the base F and bearing against the outermost one of the overlapped bars B and'O. When this screw G is tightened, it operates not only to bind the bracket in place, but also to bind the bars B and 0 together in any'adjustment to which they may be set. The screw thus performs a double function of securing the bracket in place and of binding the bars B and C in position to support the said bracket.

' Manifestly the fixtures may be made in different sizes to suit difierent window-casings and may be finished in any desired style.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters '2. In a curtain-fixture substantially as described the combination of the bars arranged at their outer ends to engage the opposite edges of a window-casing and lapping each other at their inner ends for adjustable connection, and the bracket and its clamp by which to secure the bracket to the bars and one with a curved and hooked portion to en-' gage the curved edge of the casing and the other with teeth to bind in the square edge 10 of the casing, the bracket having a base embracing the overlapped ends of the said bars, and the screw for binding the bracket in place on the bars and for binding the bars together all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM ERNEST illA'lTllllWS.

Witnesses:

ALBERT LOVELAND, S. D. ONEAL. 

